Crucial vote on Brooklyn Bridge Park development set for next week

The Brooklyn Bridge Park Corp. is expected to vote on a plan to create two apartment buildings, which will include affordable housing, near Pier 6 in the waterfront park Tuesday. The de Blasio administration released final details on the plan Wednesday, according toThe Wall Street Journal.

A number of community groups, which have opposed housing in Brooklyn Bridge Park, are mulling a possible legal action to stop the new housing development. They appealed to Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen for a meeting to discuss an alternate site for affordable housing. The current plan calls for a 28-story, 315-foot-tall tower with 126 market-rate condos and an adjacent 155-foot building that would include 100 affordable apartments and 40 units of market-rate with retail space.

Park officials argue that revenue produced from the two new projects is needed to pay for repairing damage to the piers over the next half-century. Opponents say a condo and hotel already under construction in the park will cover those costs and new development is not needed.

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